Christmas Blessings 🎄

 Well, this is it folks... we have entered the magical month of December where all things bright and beautiful get their time in the spotlight! So crack out the Kindy Glitz, bring out the bling and get ready to make magic happen on those layouts, cards and projects...

For some festive inspiration this month I've been playing with some of my older Christmas papers and enjoying jazzing them up with some of the beautiful Scrapmatts stencils ...

The hero's of this page are these gorgeous star stencils... I hit them with some green ink and then used some Crystalina Kindy Glitz on a few special stars to highlight them on the page. 

 

Next I've used some of the gorgeous Christmas words 

and trees from this beautiful set ... 

  

I inked each piece first and then put 

Crystalina Kindy Glitz over them all.

Of course there are some little extra add-ons 

from these other chipboard sets as well: 

 

... and of course this divine reindeer - that I painted white and then promptly drowned in Crystalina Kind Glitz (again)😜

 

I love being able to use papers from my stash and am a firm believer that a set of coordinating scrpmatt stencils can bring any piece of paper back to life! ⭐

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Also this month I'm sharing a project I created for a very special purpose - this Christmas box is designed especially for storing and protecting my very special Christmas ornaments. Every member of the family has one - engraved with their names etc, but up until now I just wrap them in tissues and store in a ziplock bag in the Christmas tree box - this year I noticed they had been wedged in there poorly and the bag was broken and tarnish had started to creap in. 

NO!!!!!!

So I made up this recycled box to pop them all in that will seal in its own larger ziplock bag!! Most importantly though it looks awesome and is a beautiful addition to our Christmas traditions 💚

So I started with this discarded box that my daughter 

tossed out after opening. It has a hidden maganetic

clasp on the side which I just loved! 

 

I started by covering all the panels on the box with this red spotty paper:

And then the decorating began...

Using Gold Kindy Glitz and gold surface stickers

Next I grabbed the smaller circle from this beautiful 

Holly String Circles pack and added some colour to it ... 

and more Gold Kindy Glitz. 

 

To make the hanging centre piece I had to get a bit more creative.

I started by taking one of these small string circle words and trimming out the word in the centre...

 

Next I grabbed this gorgeous sheet of santas from the Scrapmatts 'Montage Creatins Assorted Santas'paper.

 

and used the string circle as a template to 

size the perfect Santa image... 

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After choosing just the right one, I used a circle punch to get the sizing as close to the string circle as I could.

Then I just needed one of these chain chipboard strips 

to 'hang' it from. 

And just to make the side where the hidden magnetic catch is look a bit more special I inked some of these hinges with Gold and added them to the side of the box as well: 

And now my recycled box is all already to keep my precisious ornaments safe for the year ahead - once we are finished with them this Christmas of course! lol

Thanks for popping by for a look - I hope you have been inspired to create some special Christmas projects of your own. 

Have a bright and beautiful Christmas my friends 

Cheers from Kel xo 

C.S.I. Color Stories Inspiration and SCRAPMATTS!

Hello there,
 thanks for joining us for our June Blog Posts where we share our creations using wonderful SCRAPMATTS products.

For my post this month I am sharing the layouts I have created for the Color, Stories, Inspiration C.S.I. Challenges where Scrapmatts have been a sponsor and the Design Team were invited to join in with the challenges. If you haven't joined in with these challenges before, you might like to check them out, you might win some wonderful Scrapmatts as a prize!!

For the challenge #254 which was for May 15th I took my inspiration for this challenge by the C.S.I. challenge  photo and also because May was 'get caught reading month'. Now my daughter loves to read and I was able to sneak this photo of her reading a book sitting out in the sunshine and I used that.

Some closer views..

Some stencilling on the back ground and I just had to use that Scrapmatts word painted with black gesso as my Daughter just enjoys a good book!

I love these swirly chippies and chain frame..

Popped a cute little heart in there!

and my layout..

and here is a list of the Scrapmatts I have used on this layout..

ST9027 Damask Stencil 

 

CB5132 Chains 01 
 

CB6117 Assorted Words 30 
 

MC1025 Micro Chips 17 

   


The second layout I am sharing is another layout I created for the C.S.I. CHALLENGE  #255 and this layout was using the criteria to document about a food, and also by June 1st which is World Doughnut day!  I have used two photos of when my Daughter had a doughnut cake for her birthday one year!!

some closer views.

Love the texture created by the Star and Star Burst stencils.

Love this sweet bow which I painted in the same water color I used on my back ground.

and my layout.

That was a fun time for my Daughter and her friends celebrating her birthday! Make sure if you are interested in the C.S.I. challenges you can check out more details over on the blog HERE!!!!

and the Scrapmatts that I have used for this layout..

ST5002 Stencil Stars 

 

ST5016 Stencil Star Burst 
 

CB1238 Scrap Words 26 

 

CB5131 Bubbles 01 

 

CB6083 Bows 01 
 

CB1191 Scrap Words 03 

 

CB4071 String Circles 07 
 

Thank you for coming by today, I hope your day is going well..  Remember to pop back again and see what the other Scrapmatts Designers are creating using wonderful Scrapmatts products.

Happy Scrapmatting!